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Vecoplan is going to supply waste wood to Gelo Timber’s modern, small-dimensioned wood sawmill in Wunsiedel in the Fichtel Mountains. One of the primary ideas followed by the Wunsiedel Energy Park is making the most use of local natural resources and connecting them with one another. A sizable biomass combined heat and power plant receives the pelletized waste wood from the energy park (CHP). The SWW Wunsiedel GmbH and the GELO Sawmill from Weissenstadt have joined forces to form WUN Bioenergie. The Fichtel Mountains have an abundance of building or construction lumber, which is the primary raw material used by GELO.
A zero waste production
The sawmill industry experienced strong competition during 2008 to 2018, reported Wolf-Christian Kuspert, owner and Managing Director of the GELO Sawmill in Weissenstadt, Upper Franconia. “About 30% of the timber companies disappeared from the market, and those that managed to survive lost a fair amount of ground. This also created an enormous investment backlog in the industry, which is only now being gradually cleared.” Kuspert took over the family business from his father in 2003. The company was founded as a sawmill in 1898. With around 600,000 cubic metres cut annually, it is now one of the largest wood processors in Germany and part of a state-of-the-art wood processing industrial site. “We provide different finishing steps on site, so our customers get everything from a single source,” says the Managing Director.
The company founded the WUN Bioenergy GmbH in Weissenstadt, in collaboration with the Wunsiedel Public Utilities (SWW), in 2011. The subsidiary creates energy from renewable and most importantly, regional sources with its adjoining biomass CHP. GELO is a zero waste production because the trees are entirely recycled : wood chips generated during production end up in the pulp industry. Electricity is supplied from sawdust pressed into pellets and sustainable heat from regional households.
A suitable spot was discovered in Wunsiedel, just a few kilometres away, and the new energy park there quickly developed a CHP and a pellets facility. A new site was the logical choice for continued growth. The GELO sawmill, one of the few German greenfield projects developed in recent years, was erected by the wood processing firm in the energy park.
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